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- Interactive Design, UX and Graphic Design
- Online, Social and Integrated Marketing
- Writing and Content
- Web and Mobile Development
- Account Management
- Brand and Product Marketing
- Channel Marketing
- Communications and PR
- Direct Marketing and Database Marketing
- Email Marketing
- Events Promotion
- Market Research
- Online Marketing Management and Strategy
- Online Public Relations and Content
- Search Engine Marketing/Paid Search
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Social Media and Affiliate Marketing
- Web Analytics Consulting
Account Management
Account Managers keep everything moving—advertising, marketing, design, PR and more. They are responsible for overseeing the important relationship between the customer and the marketing team—setting, adjusting and re-adjusting the schedules—and juggling it all with confidence and diplomacy.
Account Managers:
- Work with the client to determine needs and convey those needs to the creative team
- Ensure project is on schedule and client deadlines are met
- Oversee the approval process
- Nurture ongoing customer relationships
Account management positions recently filled by Aquent include:
- Account Executive
- Account Manager
- Account Coordinator
Brand and Product Marketing
Brand Managers work closely with senior management to determine how brands should be managed in regard to the company image and appeal in the marketplace. Brand managers also work with market research and sales to understand public perception of the brand. On a day-to-day basis, brand professionals collaborate with Product Managers to plan, develop and implement brand strategy and marketing programs for a particular business or product. Successful brand management relies on a solid marketing or advertising background and strong communication and presentation skills. An MBA is often required for a career in brand management.
Brand Managers:
- Provide branding direction: developing and executing brand marketing programs and product launches
- Review market research to anticipate competitive and industry trends and translate consumer attitudes into actionable insights
- Work collaboratively with other departments—PR, Finance, Promotions, Research, Web
Branding and product marketing positions recently filled by Aquent include:
- Marketing Director
- Brand Manager
- Sr. Brand Manager
- Sr. Associate Brand Manager
- Associate or Assistant Brand Manager
- Sr. Product Director
- VP Marketing
- Product Manager
- Associate or Assistant Product Manager
Channel Marketing
Channel Marketers identify and direct distributors—or other channels, such as the Internet and other direct marketing methodologies—to sell and support products and services. Channel Marketeters understand that selecting the correct channel or channels is crucial to a product or service's wild success or disappointing failure.
Channel Marketers:
- Work with third parties to determine positioning, objectives and market exposure
- Direct promotional efforts at levels (distributor, wholesaler, retailer) or vertical channels of distribution
Channel marketing positions recently filled by Aquent include:
- Director of Channel Marketing
- Channel Marketing Program Manager
- Channel Marketing Specialist
- Channel Marketing Manager
Communications and PR
Advertising is not the only way a brand or business can get the message out. Corporate communications and PR experts develop programs and strategies that promote an organization, products and initiatives through media outlets and other channels. Corporate Communications Managers and PR professionals use their extensive advertising and marketing experience to craft and project a compelling brand stories, generate positive publicity and provide damage control in a crisis.
Corporate Communications Managers and Public Relations Managers:
- Control communications with the media, consumers, employees, investors and the general public
- Support teams when crafting presentations and speeches directed to employees and consumers
Marketing management positions recently filled by Aquent include:
- Corporate Communications Director
- Communications Manager
- Public Relations Manager
- Media Relations Communication Director
- Public Affairs Director
- Public Relations Consultant
Direct Marketing and Database Marketing
Direct marketing and database marketing are disciplines that utilize quantifiable results to measure marketing effectiveness and impact. Direct and Database Marketers create the strategies, analyze and parse the lists, and measure the outcome. The reports that these marketers develop are used to understand the effectiveness of a promotion and may influence elements of future campaigns.
Direct and Database Marketers:
- Create and oversee implementation of a direct marketing plan designed to increase market share
- Compile and analyze market research
- Work with creative and production teams to develop effective direct promotional materials
Direct marketing management positions recently filled by Aquent include:
- Director
- Marketing Manager
- Marketing Program Manager
- Marketing Specialist
- Marketing Brand Coordinator
- Brand Assistant
- Market Analyst
Email Marketing
Email marketing, just like direct mail, requires a specialized knowledge base. Managing email campaigns has a unique set of requirements, best practices, and specifications to ensure the most favorable outcomes. Developing a clear strategy from the outset is vital to creating a successful email marketing campaign, but many factors in the testing and development of email programs from subject lines to offer prominence can lead to differing results.
Your core staff should manage the critical functions of email planning, analytics and strategy, but bringing in specialists to complement your best practices and execute complex campaigns can drive higher click and conversion rates.
With the right email marketing strategy, companies can replicate the success they have had in direct mail. There are however major differences to email marketing execution. The most obvious are the laws that regulate SPAM and compliance.
The strategy needs to be addressed in to areas content and delivery. And a proper strategy must be outlined for each area to ensure relevance
Relevance—Content must speak to the relevance of the transaction. For instance, you do not want to send a promotion of a fur coat in a transaction email confirming the purchase of an "I love PETA" t-shirt.
Brand Consistency—Ensure that you are using your brand consistently in every message. Not only should your email communications match each other, but they too should match other communications where brand is represented including Websites, brochures, etc.
Real-time—Timing is everything, so companies must ensure that relevant messages are also timely, which usually means less than a 24 hour time frame from the original transaction time.
* Zrinity Inc."Improving the Buyer Experience (and ROI) Through Transactional Email Marketing
Testing and Tracking- Test, test, test, and then track everything
Events Promotion
Events are important marketing components of an overall marketing strategy and allow companies to interact directly with customers. Event Managers work with marketing and event planning staff to develop promotions around upcoming tradeshows, conferences and special events.
Event Promoters:
- Determine the theme, strategy and marketing materials needed for a promotional program
- Execute the promotion
- Monitor competitors' activities on an ongoing basis
- Manage publicity and advertising around events
Events promotion positions recently filled by Aquent include:
- Promotions Manager
- Promotions Coordinator
Market Research
Market research has become an important tool for nearly all aspects of brand communication. By studying the target audience, competitive landscape and general market environment, Market Researchers help develop powerful brand strategies. Market Researchers conduct studies and surveys, analyze those results and compile reports that determine which products and messages that resonate best with the consumer.
Market Researchers:
- Develop research programs that provide data to evaluate existing or proposed products and services
- Identify and research market conditions or industry changes that may affect sales
- Mine and analyze customer and market data to provide relevant insights for the marketing team
Marketing research positions recently filled by Aquent include:
- VP Market Research
- Senior Market Research Analyst
- Market Research Analyst
- Junior Market Research Analyst
- Research Coordinator
Online Marketing Management and Strategy
Online campaigns are unique because they can be more quickly and more easily measured than traditional print and television campaigns. It is best to start small and set goals for target conversion rates, then measure, test and increase your marketing spend in line with your campaign's latest goals. Add more campaigns as you become focused and more efficient. Because online marketing campaigns have a shorter lead time and can be measured more immediately, you can optimize more easily based on your results. Once you reach your targets, you can then increase spending to reach your desired volume of online activity.
Improving response rates through A/B testing
A/B or split testing is a method of advertising testing where a baseline control sample is compared to a variety of single-variable test samples to measure and improve response rates. With more companies leveraging interactive media, this strategy has become increasingly important to test a variety of online components, including banner ad graphics, email subject lines, site content, calls to action, landing pages and micro sites.
Understanding which variables are helping to increase your conversion rates is critical to reaching your audience and developing successful campaigns. For A/B tests to be effective, a clear set of variables needs to be established along with your testing goals. The key is to make sure you are only testing one element or variable in any given test. So if you are trying to understand which graphic element performs better, you need to keep the offer the same, and vice versa.
The key role for specialists in your online marketing management group is to identify and evaluate new tactics and channels that can increase online traffic and raise brand awareness for your organization. This function is primarily responsible for managing your online advertising campaigns and marketing programs, and maintaining relationships with your advertising partners.
Like any media programs you develop, conceiving the right tests, creating the optimal mix of marketing elements, and evaluating the overall performance of your online marketing efforts is critical to establishing successful online marketing programs.
We offer a variety of services including:
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Online Public Relations and Content
Companies must continue to focus on Content, Online Reputation Management and PR. As consumers have increasingly adopted the self-service model, must ensure that the content on the web covers the key areas with content. This should address specific questions on products and make sure that the right messaging is going out online about your organization.
Online reputation management is a developing field that encompasses public relations and search engine optimization.
"Consumers go online to make buying decisions. When they research brands using search engines, the results that they observe often influence how they behave. Consumer generated media sites offer the general public the opportunity to express their views of brands. This information can be found in search engine results. Members of the public such as competitors, and ex-employees can take part in the online conversation, which can adversely affect the brand reputation." *Workz blog by SEOJoe the President & Founder of SEOJoe, Inc.
Online reputation management is a field that involves the monitoring of online conversation, and the action undertaken, to improved brand reputation within search engine results.
Core Activities
• Writes, manages, edits, and sources website content
• Improves site engagement through user management, guerilla marketing and leveraging other initiatives
• Utilizes content management tools and systems for content, page and document creation
• Partners with subject matter experts inside and outside the organization
• Utilizes visitor traffic reporting to analyze site success
• Contributes to and participants in content planning
• Maintains in-depth working knowledge of related topics, sources, and trends
Search Engine Marketing/Paid Search
Although the two terms search engine marketing (SEO) and search engine optimization are often used interchangeably by many organizations, there really is a difference between their two meanings. Search engine optimization is actually a subset of search engine marketing. While SEO is perhaps the most cost-effective function, it is just one component of a SEM campaign.
The SEM/ Paid Search Audit
The SEM/Paid Search Audit concept is rather simple. In the finance world, there has been a long-standing practice of the internal and external audit. The same concept is being applied in the Paid Search industry. This "audit" is working in two ways:
Agency and Consulting: The In-House Audit
Let a consultant review and audit your paid search campaign for a one to three month time frame. The purpose of this Paid Search Audit is to ensure that an in-house marketing team is functioning as effectively as possible.
Agency Review
Take back control of the Paid Search practice and collaborating with a consulting resource. In addition to the standard audit activities, the Agency Audit also looks at the branded key words skew and focuses on optimizing all accounts for maximum conversion.
In most cases, such audit efforts have resulted in decreased cost by over 50 percent while increasing conversion as high as 35%.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
This technical group is responsible for developing and implementing SEO strategies, SEM landing pages, microsites, digital display inventory, and social networking applications. Because it requires a technical skill set, this group should be a separate function from SEM.
The SEO technology strategist:
- Assists in making websites friendly to search engines "organically," without purchasing additional ads or paying to have the site listed
- Uses inbound links, keywords and coding like special META tags to make sites more web friendly
- Focuses on content and landing pages with input from the SEM, online publics relations and content, and online marketing management groups
- Works with site developers and oversee the technical development of SEO strategies
Social Media and Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice where an online company rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer reached by the affiliate's marketing efforts. Affiliate marketing tends to be used more seldom by most online marketers, who prefer to use more traditional forms of online marketing like organize search engine optimization, paid search advertising, email marketing, and display advertising
Companies need to create an affiliate marketing team to ensure that it has a unified message and buying strategy to control the cost and use of its name. It can be a highly effective way to attract users while having a fixed cost. It also can allow you to address a longtail strategy with smaller niche vendors.
Affiliate marketing is a modern variation of the practice of paying a finder's fee for the introduction of new clients to a business. Compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit (pay per click), registrant (pay per lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (pay per sale), or any combination.
The affiliate marketing function:
- Develops, fosters, and manages multiple, large direct affiliate relationships
- Provides 'hands-on' direction to partners with key information and insight to grow sales
- Directs appropriate promotions, incentives, creative for affiliate programs
- Develops and prioritizes product requirements according to goals
- Analyzes results for areas of opportunities and successes
- Manages weekly and monthly reporting and tracking of performance metrics
Web Analytics Consulting
Web analytics can play an important role in helping your organization achieve a greater ROI or competitive edge. By centralizing your data analytics function, you can respond to market changes more quickly and also make changes to your strategy and deliverables in real time. Bringing these operations in-house can also help eliminate redundant activities through a more cohesive, cost-effective process.
A wide variety of metrics tools exist today to help your company monitor its online performance. In addition to hiring a specialized SEM company to develop a range of optimization techniques, you may also want to take advantage of the services provided by Webtrends, Google Analytics or any number of less expensive pay-per-click solutions. Marketing platforms like Marketo and Eloqua offer end-to-end measurement and database integration systems or you may decide to use a mix of email marketing tools and tracking systems.
Once you define your program's goals, an online marketing manager can help you establish the tools you need to effectively measure success. Whatever you decide, there are options to fit your specific needs and budget. Depending on the size of your company and the complexity of your online campaigns, you should implement a site tracking system that enables you to see the referring sources, number of clicks, bounce rates, and email opens, to name a few helpful metrics.
The Online Marketing Practive can assist you in the creation of the tracking and measurement of all online activates. Our consultants assist our clients with a ride variety of functions including:
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- Developes and manages conversion measurement methodologies and develop reporting for all online marketing activities
- Delivers effective and measurable components of all online marketing initiatives to ensure maximum business value and ensure alignment and integration with other online marketing activities across the enterprise
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Speaking in value and long term plan, Nate McLouth and Rajai Davis in a platoon would cost roughly 1/3 of what it will take to sign Shin-Soo Choo (and 5 years less on a contract). The facts are that McLouth and Davis are better defensively, steal more bases, while striking out less and could play any OF spot comfortably. They would also be legitimate lead-off hitters.
Saving $10-15M would help with the posting process if we're to go after Mashiro Tanaka aggressively. Or we could use that money to retain Navarro, Baker, etc...
Crunching the raw numbers, it would be similar production, keeping in mind that Choo has 25HBP and 5 IBB this year.
155 H, 33 2B, 1 3B, 21 HR, 105 R, 52 RBI, 109 BB, 131 K, 18SB/11CS, .283/.423/.462 (Choo)
163 H, 32 2B, 5 3B, 13 HR, 092 R, 43 RBI, 054 BB, 108 K, 56SB/10CS, .262/.315/.390 (McLouth/Davis)

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Thinking of you.
Hugs, Dip.
Thinking of you & your family. You are in my prayers.
Thanks so much for your kind responses and good advice.
Still deciding what to do about accessing the site.
Sending big HUGS to you all with special thoughts and prayers for you UKgirl
Laura, I don't know what has happened - I'll have to go back to 27 and find out. but take some hugs for now..... (((((Laura)))))
Theres no change with my Dad. My twin brother has gone down to make sure our older acts appropriately and to be there for Mum. None of us, me, my twin or my sister, can predict how he will react as I said, he is by far the most fragile and least able to cope in a crisis, although ironically, he thinks he can. The doctor has upped the meds. I hope its not long. Poor Mum.
And then to while away some time, I and for some parts fWH, just watched One Hour Photo. I didnt know it would have infidelity in it. There is a part where Robin Williams confronts the adulterous pair in the hotel room wielding a hunting knife. I wish Id been able to do that. I would have LOVED to have done something like that. Made it all so sleazy and sordid and pathetic.
And my Dad knows nothing of what fWH has done. He thinks/thought of him as a wonderful SIL who adored his daughter. As a man of integrity. Maybe he had an inkling, who knows. He was very gentle with me when I lost a ton of weight, so
Anyway, thanks for your support and hugs. I dont know how I survived before SI.
I too am keeping you, your dad and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Also praying for the doctor and caregivers to do the best possible for him at this stage.
It's never easy to accept the loss when it comes, prepared or not, but please know we are here for you.
Bummer about the movie too! Is there a movie or tv show without infidelity in it at some point???
Lately I only feel safe watching programs with my 2 1/2 yr old grandson. Christmas shows are alright except for the Russell Peters show the other night... far too many off-colour references in a supposed holiday special, imo!
Vent over...
Hugs to all {{{LTA}}}
I woke this morning about 4am (nothing unusual there) and kept thinking that a white light was flashing, but each time I opened my eyes, it was dark. I was thinking about him, I could hear him too. Bless you, which is what he kept saying to me when I was there. Im not religious (although my parents are), so it was odd. White light.
Im incredibly sad. DS17 was weeping when he hugged me this morning. DS25 rang from NZ, obviously very sad and said he loved me and his Grandpam and that he would ring her in a day or two. He is so sweet.
My Dad was a highly regarded man, a village elder, a sage and wise person. People came to him for all sorts of advice form filling, dealing with authorities, dealing with family problems, bereavement, all sorts of things. He did all the paperwork for all the community projects parish hall, church rafters, school canteen, football showers, countless little things too. There will be many tears shed by many people today.
But life goes on. I think my brothers will sort all the initial stuff. The lovely vicar (female) will call in and look after my Mum and everything to do with the service. Dad had a small area in front of the Celtic cross in the churchyard consecrated for cremated remains and had a blank plaque put there ready for him and Mum. Thats organisation for you.
I know many of you know just how I am feeling. I will carry the memories of my generously spirited father. One who always had a twinkle in his ice blue eyes.
For you UK...
So I googled your whitelight...
by Carl Sandburg - Whitelight
Your whitelight flashes
the frost to-night
Moon of the purple
and silent west.
Remember me
one of your lovers of dreams.
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P.S. Tryn, that's beautiful.
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Hello guys!
I am running into a problem regarding my hackintosh project and your help would be appreciated.
I have 2 hard drives, 1TB SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ, and one 160GB Maxtor HDD. SATA2 and SATA respectively.
I have W7 on my 1TB HDD and would like to have OSX in dual boot on the 160GB one.
So what I have done so far..
1) Booted the iPc live dvd, create a DSDT.aml file, added some necessary kexts..
2) Created 3 partitions on the 160GB one, one where OSX will be installed, one storage and one where the installation image was restored. 120gb 30gb 10gb
3) So I restored the retail OSX 10.6 DVD image on the 3 partition (10gb)
4) I then installed chameleon on all of the partitions and added the extra folder.
Now when I want to boot from that 160gb I get stuck at Verifying DMI Pool Data
My specs are
Corsair TX750W
Cooler Master 690 II
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
Intel Core i7 920 3.0Ghz (oc) Prolimatech MegaShadow w/ Scythe 1600rpm fan
Gigabyte GTX460 1GB SLI
6GB Mushkin 1600mhz RAM CL7
Also i would like to note that I have run into millions of problems since the start of my journey, many of which I have posted on this forum but got no replies.
Some of the problems
While trying to boot the iATKOS distro I didn't even get to the GUI when SATA was set to AHCI.
If tho, it was set to IDE, I would get to the GUI but got the EBIOS error when trying to install.
2. I got the line 85 error while trying to boot the live DVD, which though was fixed when I created the partitions as HFS+ in Windows using the MacDrive program.
Again the problem is, when I select to boot from the 160GB hdd I am stuck at Verifying DMI Pool Data.
Please guys help me solve the problem.
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I tried different spellings. I reinstalled and tried different names and passwords. About three more hours went by. Oh, I see "ubuntu" is a login name and password, but it has no privileges, so I can't read off the users, to see if I misspelled something. Then, I thought, "I'll look on the magazine site to see what they say". Hunt, hunt: "oh, a small error, the installer doesn't add any users...here's a workaround....let us know if this solves your problem, we apologize for the inconvenience".
Yes, your "fix" gave "ubuntu" enough privilege that I could log in with it and create admin accounts. I see no point in ranting about how every Linux distro and version I install, gives me some kind of grief like this. But all Linux users and developers have "no problems" dealing with these issues; I've given up in trying to explain that Linux for Windows users, is like French to English-speakers, they just think I'm stupid (he he) for not speaking their "French". Or that I'm evil for using paid-for software, etc. etc.
However, all the interesting software I'd like to use or play with, comes in Linux form now. Windows software is all the commercial stuff at high prices. So, either I spend a lot of money, or I trip over every install of every change in every distribution and every version of every package I MIGHT want to run in Linux. And then, months later, it all changes again, and I either keep installing new versions, or I wipe it all and get a new distribution.
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Members of the Chumash tribe and several other Malibu residents took part in a ceremony this week to honor a dead whale that washed ashore on Little Dume.
The 40-foot male Fin whale came ashore on Monday at the exclusive Malibu beach and immediately got stuck in between some rocks. Researchers determined on Tuesday that the whale died of injuries from a ship strike following a necropsy, a term describing an autopsy on animals.
"This young male got hit and killed for no fault of his own," said Chumash ceremonial leader Mati Waiya. "We have to remember there is a family out there that is going to miss this beautiful creature."
Waiya said the ceremony, which took place at sunset Tuesday and involved a sacred fire, meant to honor and give respect to the whale.
Waiya's wife, Luhui Isha Waiya said the scene of the cut open whale from the necropsy was shocking.
"It was a little disturbing to say the least because they were a little extreme in taking the body apart," Luhui Waiya said. "They took his eyes out. They took other organs. His intestines were all there right toward the sand side, just strewn right outside of its body. They took big chunks of the flesh, different parts."
As agencies are currently dodging taking action to remove the whale's rotting carcas from the beach, she hopes that in the future the Chumash are included in the conversation. She said she has reached out to California State Parks and L.A. County officials this week.
"As a community it might be a good idea to think together rather than apart. In this modern world, we are often pushed to think as individuals rather than the collective. We end up thinking what is best for me rather than what is best for the whole," she said.
Luhui Waiya said a ceremony was performed to give the whale the respect it deserved.
"We sang to it. Just giving the respect of this creative deserve. These are our ocean relatives," she said.
In the tribe's creation story, the Chumash crossed over a rainbow bridge from Santa Cruz Island to the mainland.
"They were warned not to look down from the rainbow bridge as they were crossing. They couldn't help themselves. They look down, got dizzy and fell," Luhui Waiya said.
As the people plunged into the ocean, they were turned into dolphins.
"Our brother and sisters are the dolphins. From our creation story, those are the brother and sisters in the sea," she said.
Both Luhui and Mati Waiya said they hope the whale is not left on the beach, where it has become a spectacle for the media and passerby.
"I hope they don't just let it linger there. It was beautiful when it landed and then it gets mutilated and they don't even take it out," Mati Waiya said.


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Neighborhoods: Pearl, Neighbors West - Northwest
yummy food. – I don't know why people are complaining about the food. When I went I had a delicious hand made pasta whith truffles and and a great sauce! the ambiance was nice too:)
Absolutely AMAZING food/drinks – I LOVE everything about this restaurant! The food is incredible, and since they introduced their new under $20 small plates menu, I can try a variety of dishes without breaking the bank! I have been eating here for over a year and have NEVER been disappointed. Valet, private dining, and cute bartenders, what more could you ask for?
Overpriced, Faux-complex and just phony! – I ordered the mushroom and pepper fettuccine and it was so bland, I asked for salt and pepper. No Fresh Ground pepper....so I spooned, more and more pepper over the fettuccini....but no to avail....it just wasn't good! Glue-blobs---I think it was overdone! The service was non-attentive or intrusive---and nothing in between. I will not go back....$55 later, I had a stomach ache, empty wallet and was totally unsatisfied!
Delicious!! – One of the best restaurants I've been in Portland! Expect to spend some extra money than usual for a dinner in this city but it surely worth it!
An very complete and well made wine list, really tasty food and a nice staff!
And it's also a very romantic atmosphere; I surely want to go there again to make sure of all my great first impressions but this first time was totally flawless.
It has surely has a contemporary accent but doesn?t lose the "real food" style.
Are you kidding me? I would not recomend. There are plenty of far better places in Portland. – The food is alright, but so overpriced, and the service was very slow. Was it ok? Sure, but there are far better places to go in Portland. In fact many just down the street...
Food was all great, and so was the service – We tried three different entrees and three starters, and cou;dn't decide who was the winner. Staff advice on wine pairings was right on. Not cheap, but worth it. Will definitely go back. It did take awhile to get our drinks.
Wow, what pretentiousoverpriced bland food. – Are you serious? Between the lousy wait time, and the overpriced food, I will not be coming back. The foie gras tasted like something that came out of a can. I'll be going to Beast next time, thank you very much. Oh, and the cost? Get real.
Randon menu of everything... – The menu has a little bit of everything. The food is okay, but no real unique flavors in anything. I thinks its average taste for it's price range. Nothing exceptional about the place. I wouldn't really recommend it if you're looking for something to really knock your socks off. But I would recommend it for a casual happy hour place.
Customer Service Non-existent – I thought someone may be interested in my experience with Ten-01 since Ten-01 was not. In Februrary, I reserved two spots for a wine-tasting/small plate event for April 12th. I spoke with someone at length about the event, and even gave a credit card number to reserve the spot. On the 8th, I called to confirm the cost, and was told it had been moved to the 5th a month ago. Rather than attempt to determine who I was, where my reservations was, or what had happened, the sommelier (Erica Landon) said only (and repeatedly) that she had personally called everyone on the reservation list. I'm not sure if she was implying that I was lying about my reservation, or if she is simply not skilled at customer relations, but it was offensive. I worked in restuarants for many years, and am now in the professional world. It's one thing to make a mistake, it's another to be entirely un-apologetic. We will not return.
Outstanding food on a short weekend visit – My wife and I were in Portland for a short weekend break, and I had the task of finding a couple of good places to eat. I am a big time foodie, and very in to restaurants that source locally. At the top of the list was Le Pigeon, which I am rather glad I didn't actually get in to - the manner of the host that answered the phone was rediculuous - "what, you want a reservation for Saturday? that is only 5 days away, you have to call earlier than that to get in here" kinda deal.
So, with much more looking around I stumbled across Ten-01, and also Lucy's Table. I was at first a little dubious about Ten-01, just from pictures it looked like it could be a touch pretenious, and I am certainly not into that. I am glad to say that it wasn't at all. The place was relaxed, and the staff were incredible. The Sommelier was great, and recommended a great wine that wasn't too expensive. Our waiter was also extremely knowledagable, and knew the menu like the back of his hand - including cooking details, which is great to see.
I had a black cod dish, with foie gras, which was perfectly cooked - and could quite easily been just as good without the gras - the black cod added enough richness. My wife had a scallop dish, with a fantastic chorizio/brussel sprout mix. Again, completely stellar. The only complaint was that there was grit in the scallops - normally a sackable offense, but in this instance it really didn't matter, it was only a couple of tiny grits, and the rest of the dish was so good, it didn't let the side down.
To finish was the lightest bread pudding I have ever tasted.
This place put it all together perfectly. Great food, perfect service, and a decent vibe. Highly recommended.
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text: (WGR 550) -- The talk of the town in regards to the Buffalo Bills this week all revolves around franchised safety Jairus Byrd and what resolution, if any, will come of it by next week. The two sides have until Monday, July 15 at 4 pm to get a long-term contract extension signed, sealed and delivered to league offices. Based on the latest news and trends, it doesn't appear to be all that likely that Byrd and the Bills reach a conclusion by the beginning of next week. The lingering question, however, is whether or not the free safety is worth the type of money that he is likely asking for. Using advanced statistics, on the field scouting and some of the top salaries in the league, one can start to figure out if Jairus Byrd has a case to be one of the highest paid at his position in the league. Top Salaries Before going through anything else, you have to first identify the top current salaries throughout the National Football League at Byrd's position. Looking at it three different ways (with the help of Spotrac.com, a database for contracts), there are 11 players that appear within the league's top ten salaries. If you look at it from their 2013 salary cap hit, their 2013 base salaries, or their average salaries, the common names are Pittsburgh's Troy Polamalu, Kansas City's Eric Berry, Tampa Bay's Dashon Goldson, San Diego's Eric Weddle, the New York Giants' Antrel Rolle, Tennessee's Michael Griffin, Indianapolis' Antoine Bethea, Oakland's Tyvon Branch, Indianapolis' LaRon Landry, Houston's Danieal Manning and San Francisco's Donte Whitner. Byrd, by way of his franchise tag that will be worth $6.916 million if and when it's signed, is among the top seven in all three categories. So how does he stack up against the Polamalu's, Goldson's and Weddle's of the NFL? Advanced Stats What makes figuring out a defensive player's worth so incredibly hard to do is because the accepted statistics rarely paint the complete picture as to what an individual brings to the table. It's especially important to complement those statistics with a new way of breaking down players with more situationally specific statistics. Byrd had a modest 76 tackles which placed him 33rd among safeties in 2012, but also chipped in five interceptions (third among safeties) and four forced fumbles (tied for the most in 2012 among safeties). It's likely the player and his agent, Eugene Parker, are hammering down on those last two statistics to try and bill him as a playmaking safety. But what do the advanced stats say? Using a tremendous tool for trying to know the inns and outs of players throughout the league, AdvancedNFLStats.com devised two barometers of a player's excellence or failures. They use 'Win Probability Added' (WPA) and 'Expected Points Added per Game' (EPA/G). To explain them succinctly, WPA for an individual player measures how much a play that player was directly involved in impacts the outcome of the game. EPA/G instead measures the player's impact on the score of the game with plays that they were involved. There is much more to it than that so if you have some time, reading the AdvancedNFLStats.com glossary is highly encouraged. Among the top 12 safeties in the league and how they rank, Byrd (1.49) had the highest WPA of any of them in 2012. He's followed by Rolle (1.45), Weddle (1.41), Manning (1.36), Griffin (0.97), Goldson (0.89), Landry (0.88), Berry (0.85), Bethea (0.80), Whitner (0.65), Branch (0.62) and Polamalu (0.37) As for EPA/G is concerned, Byrd (2.88) was the second highest among the top 12, ranking only behind New York's Antrel Rolle (3.23). As far as 2012 was concerned through advanced statistics, there weren't many better in the league than Byrd. However, one year does not always give the full story. Last season provided a significant jump in both WPA and EPA/G for Byrd as opposed to his previous two seasons. Was 2012 an anomaly, or the culmination of Byrd's hard work through the first three years in the league? Really, that's another factor that makes contracts so difficult because much of it is projection. Will the player that is looking for a boatload of money actually live up to it? If Byrd does what he did in 2012 from an advanced stats perspective for most years of a lucrative long-term deal, the Bills would likely have no problem with paying him $8 to $9 million per season. The one thing you do look for though is trends. Taking the last three seasons of the top 12's WPA and EPA/G, Byrd still ranks rather favorably. He is fifth of those 12 names in WPA over three seasons (1.09), and sixth in EPA/G (2.36). Play on the field Even if you are one that really looks in to advanced stats and how players perform through them, it still can't fully replace scouting and knowing the game inside and out. With football especially, there are too many instances where a player can luck in to a good season. In the grand scheme of things, sixteen games is such a small sample size so you really have to possess a finite sense of a player's strengths and weaknesses on the field. When it comes to Byrd, his biggest strength without question is his overall instincts of knowing where to be and when to be there. His interceptions do not come by chance, they are a product of natural instincts in being around the game his whole life, along with hard work and preparation on a weekly basis. Rarely do you see Byrd bite hard on a play action fake, which is an overall epidemic if you watch the past two years of Bills games. He's also turned himself in to a complete player, improving drastically in his overall tackling ability which helped him to as many forced fumbles as he had in 2012. However, his instincts compensate for where genetics left him short. He is not the biggest, fastest or strongest player at his position. That leaves him having to overcome these certain characteristics where some of his safety brethren don't have to work as hard. The question surrounding that is obvious. Byrd is turning 27 in the middle of this season. How much longer can his instincts be able to remove his size and speed from being a problem? Normal aging rules indicates that the older a person gets, the slower a person gets. All things must be considered when it comes to paying a player as much as Byrd likely wants. Deconstructing myths There are a couple of lines of thinking that really don't make sense when it comes to deciding on whether or not to give a player a lucrative contract. One is from a team-based perspective, and the other of the positional variety. The first: "How good could Byrd really be if the defense was as bad as they were?" That could be one of the most convenient lines of thinking that do not present much understanding as to how the game is played. As we all know, a defense takes 11 pieces to run as a cohesive unit in an offensive-friendly NFL. In 2012, Byrd was one of the direct reasons that the Bills won three of their six games. Wins against Arizona, Jacksonville and Miami all would have been much more in doubt had it not been for a big turnover made by the free safety. A forced fumble at the end of the first half in Indianapolis that was erroneously overlooked could have dramatically impacted that game, and even early on in their first meeting with New England, Byrd's pair of forced fumbles helped them jump out to a lead. When an individual has that type of an impact on 25-percent of your games, that's grounds for a dominant player on defense. It's on the front office and coaching staff to cultivate the rest of the talent on defense to not only complement that individual but to put him in even more advantageous situations because of his teammates. Don't hate the player, hate the construction of the team in that respect. The second: "You don't overpay for safeties." Sure, one can make a case that this logic should be observed ten years ago when the adage "run and stop the run" was prevalent in the NFL. However, that is not how today's league is constructed. As written previously, it's a changed league the provides so many opportunities for passing attacks to dominate a game that you need capable players in the defensive secondary to keep quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight ends at bay. That's why safeties are reaching a high level of importance in the NFL. If a team has a player that offenses come to fear in the secondary, that inhibits what they do not only on game day, but in preparations and trying to overcompensate for that player. If a team has merely average play from their safeties they should not overspend to keep those individual players. However, if a team has a top five talent that can affect an offense's passing game, then they need to do everything in their power to keep that player. Conclusion With all things considered including salaries, trends of advanced statistics, scouting and projection, the Bills shouldn't mess around with Jairus Byrd. After having three different coordinators throughout his first four seasons, imagine how far along he would be if there was some actual continuity at One Bills Drive. The defense under Mike Pettine calls for safeties to be able to help the team when they're vulnerable from sending as many pass rushers as the Bills likely will. When it comes to Byrd, replacing an elite level safety with a player just switching to the position for the first time in his life (Aaron Williams) is a recipe for disaster. At the very least, the Bills should work out a one-year contract to get Byrd in to camp on time as to be ready for the season with a new defense. They might be best served, however, to sign Byrd to a lucrative four or five year backloaded contract that they can get off the books after the third season if his play dips. When you find an elite level player at a position that is trending up in the NFL, teams should not let that slip away unless a suitable understudy is ready to step in. The Bills clearly do not have that, and while fourth-round pick Duke Williams or the recently converted Aaron Williams could become a solid starter down the line, it's tough to top 'elite' on a defense that requires excellent play and instincts from their safeties. Twitter: @JoeBuscaglia


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The Bowie Baysox Drive-In opened in 2004. It was a portable drive-in which lasted one season (2005/2005) before it was set up elsewhere. It features second run movies, digital cinema, and digital alternative entertainment such as sporting events, races, and concerts. It has a capacity for 300 cars.
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The Bowie Baysox are a minor league baseball team…what's their connection with the drive-in?
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It seems that this drive-in is located in the same place as the baseball team. This is what I found out. Alan J. Akerman is president of American Family Entertainment, of Eldersburg, Md. This year, Akerman is operating a portable drive-in at Prince George's Stadium in Bowie, Md. The stadium is home to the Bowie Baysox, an AA minor league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. When the team is on the road, Akerman has an agreement with Comcast-Spectacor to use the lot, which has space for 300 vehicles. A screen 40-feet wide and 50-feet high is inflated minutes before sunset. I guess that you could call this a "portable" drive-in.
this drive in theatre never showed first run films, they showed all product from dvds and vhs tapes. there digital projection was awesome and the sound crisp and clear and you could hear the film for about 3 miles going towards the bay bridge when you left the drive in. the theatre featured a drive in size inflatable screen which presented the films very well. the rest rooms were located in the ball park and it was kinda cool to see a lightly lit ball field as you walked to the rest room. the concession stand had top notch food at low prices. maryland crab cakes and pit beef were awesome. when mr ackerman closed the theatre he took his operation to hagerstown maryland to take over the r/c theatres 10 plex and revived for a while the hager drive in theatre
WEll,Is this a real theatre hat should even be on CT.
A portable drive-in? What a concept.
I know they do it Japan,read it in BOXOFFICE,years ago.
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